OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Industrial Relations is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Work–life balance and gig work: ‘Where are we now’ and ‘where to next’ with the work–life balance agenda?	28
Workplace gender equality in the post-pandemic era: Where to next?	28
Agents of transition or defenders of the status quo? Trade union strategies in green transitions	17
International organisations and the future of work: How new technologies and inequality shaped the narratives in 2019	15
‘We’re in the coal business’: Maintaining fossil fuel hegemony in the face of climate change	15
Digital unionism as a renewal strategy? Social media use by trade union confederations	13
COVID-19 in Southeast Asia: Implications for workers and unions	13
The evolving nature of labour inspection, enforcement of employment rights and the regulatory reach of the state in Britain	11
Climate change and industrial relations: Reflections on an emerging field	11
‘Zones of contention’ in industrial relations: Framing pluralism as praxis	11
Too hot to handle? An analysis of chefs’ job quality in Australian restaurants	10
Agonising over industrial relations: Bringing agonism and dissensus to the pluralist frames of reference	10
Employer-led flexibility, working time uncertainty, and trade union responses: The case of academics, teachers and school secretaries in Ireland	10
Safeguarding women at work? Lessons from Aotearoa New Zealand on effectively implementing domestic violence policies	10
Australian industrial relations in 2019: The year wage theft went mainstream	10
Collective regulation and the future of work in the digital economy: Insights from comparative employment relations	10
Peer-to-peer online voice as emergent collective action	9
Wage-setting and gender pay equality in Australia: Advances, retreats and future prospects	9
Gender equality and paid parental leave in Australia: A decade of giant leaps or baby steps?	9
Women, work and industrial relations in Australia in 2020	8
The role of the state in influencing work conditions in China's internet industry: Policy, evidence, and implications for industrial relations	8
The state as regulator? The ‘dual-track’ system of employment in the Chinese public sector and barriers to equal pay for equal work	8
Modern slavery in global value chains: A global factory and governance perspective	8
Slowing the treadmill for a good life for All? German trade union narratives and social-ecological transformation	8
Equal pay for work of equal value, wage-setting and the gender pay gap	8

Union framing of gender equality and the elusive potential of equality bargaining in a difficult climate	8
Regulating for gender-equitable decent work in social and community services: Bringing the state back in	8
Female outsiders in South Korea’s dual labour market: Challenges of equal pay for work of equal value	7
The importance of competition and consumer law in regulating gig work and beyond	7
Reframing the narrative: Renewing power resources and capabilities in union campaigns for public education	7
Modern slavery and the employment relationship: Exploring the continuum of exploitation	6
Experiences of precariousness and exploitation of Romanian transnational live-in care workers in Austria	6
Using unitarist, pluralist, and radical frames to map the cross-section distribution of employment relations across workplaces: A four-country empirical investigation of patterns and determinants	6
Barriers to ‘equal pay for work of equal value’ for women in Japan: Assessing the potential for change	6
COVID-normal workplaces: Should working from home be a ‘collective flexibility’?	6
The revival and refashioning of gender pay equity in New Zealand	6
Nonstandard Employment and Indigenous Earnings Inequality in Canada	5
Redressing gendered undervaluation in New Zealand aged care: Institutions, activism and coalitions	5
Decent gig work in Sub Sahara Africa?	5
Australian industrial relations in 2020: COVID-19, crisis and opportunity	5
Outsourcing the enforcement of modern slavery: Overcoming the limitations of a market-based disclosure model	5
Bricolage in labor organizing practices: Spanish and Italian migrant activists in Berlin	5
Old frames and new lenses: Frames of reference revisited	4
Industrial legislation in Australia in 2019	4
‘Frames of reference’ in Victorian England: What Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South reveals about perceptions of the employment relationship	4
Platform adaptation to regulation: The case of domestic cleaning in Europe	4
Bargaining for gender equality in Aotearoa New Zealand: Flexible work arrangements in collective agreements, 2007–2019	4
The Australian labour market in 2020	4
Industrial legislation in Australia, 2020	4
Unions and collective bargaining in Australia in 2020	4
Pluralisms? Social philosophy, social science and public policy in employment relations and human resource management	4
Employer and employer association matters in Australia in 2020	3
Through the back-door: How Australia and Canada use working holiday programs to fulfill demands for migrant work via cultural exchange	3
Employer and employer association matters in Australia in 2019	3
The Australian industrial system in the era of COVID-19	3
Job quality and automation: Do more automatable occupations have less job satisfaction and health?	3
Negotiating a new Swedish model: Employment transition agreements and the struggle over redundancies	3
Collaborating for policy impact: Academic-practitioner collaboration in industrial relations research	3
Did trade unions reinforce the neoliberal transformation? The Dutch case	3
A strike in the time of COVID-19 pandemic: The 2020 health workers’ dispute in Hong Kong	3
Will Business and Human Rights regulation help Rajasthan's bonded labourers who mine sandstone?	3
Unions and collective bargaining in Australia in 2019	3
The gendered consequences of skill-discounting for migrants	3
‘Not my task’: Role perceptions in a green transition among shop stewards in the Norwegian petroleum industry	3
Regulatory pluralism and the resolution of collective labour disputes in Southeast Asia	2
From equal pay to overcoming undervaluation: The Australian National Pay Equity Coalition 1988–2011	2
The Australian labour market in 2021	2
Temporary talent: Wage penalties among highly educated temporary workers in Canada	2
Analysing the employment impact of Sunday wage premiums reductions: Implications for minimum wage research	2
Working towards a green job?: Autoworkers, climate change and the role of collective identity in union renewal	2
Bargaining for work–family benefits in the UK	2
Women, work and industrial relations in Australia in 2021	2
Unions and collective bargaining in Australia in 2021	2
Cross-spousal influences on mature-aged Australians’ transitions in and out of employment 2001–2017	2
Foreign ownership and centralized collective bargaining: Direct and indirect influences	2

Wake-up call for a dysfunctional system: Employer perspectives on industrial relations in 2020	2
Making sense of downstream labour risk in global value chains: The case of the Australian cotton industry	2
Revisiting voluntarism: Private voluntary regulation by Employer Forums in the United Kingdom	2
Framing work and welfare: Insights from the growing relevance of company welfare in Italy	2
Major court and tribunal decisions in Australia in 2020	2
Towards a relational environmental labour studies	1
Collective bargaining in the Australian public service: From New Public Management to public value	1
How do trade unions manage themselves? A study of Australian unions’ administrative practices	1
Talking about non-union collective agreements: A union perspective	1
Employment stability and decent work: Trends, characteristics and determinants in a liberal market economy	1
Regulating for gender equality in the Australian Public Service: Extending Dickens’ tripod of regulation	1
After Rana Plaza: Governing Exploitative Workplace Labour Regimes in Bangladeshi Garment Export Factories	1
Pregnant and jobless: A contextualizing analysis of pregnancy dismissal in Israeli labour court rulings	1
Unbundling workplace conflict: Exploring the relationship between grievances and non-strike industrial actions and the moderating effect of voice mechanisms	1
“Without union power, there is no way of pursuing your policy goals”: when do labor unions use political mobilization as a revitalization strategy?	1
Edouard Morena, Dunja Krause and Dimitris Stevis (eds), Just Transitions: Social Justice in the Shift Towards a Low-Carbon World	1
Is multidimensional precarious employment higher for women?	1
Women specialist managers in Australia – Where are we now? Where to next?	1
The union difference: Experiences of five-star hotel workers in Cambodia during COVID-19	1
Industrial legislation in Australia in 2021	1